Matariki

On Friday we visited room 16 to learn about Matariki together. We watched a legend about how the seven sisters were formed. Then we talked about celebrations. To celebrate Matariki as a community we made a korowai. We wrote how we like to celebrate with our whanau and friends on feathers and attached these to our korowai. It is hanging outside room 16 and 17, you should come and have a look!

Syllables GAME

Today we looked at syllables. Syllables help us sound out words when we are reading or writing. Syllables are the sounds in words. You can clap or speak like a robot or count how many times your mouth opens to count syllables. Here is a fun game to play to practise breaking words into syllables.http://www.gotkidsgames.com/syll/syll.html

What are you going to do to fill a bucket today? At the end of the day we will post onto the blog with some of the special things we have done to fill each others buckets. 

The Flame

Well Done Lucy, Sophie, Lola, Luka, Thanuja and Isaac! 

These children have worked very hard and now have their name on the flame. 

These children always fill buckets, do the right thing and do their very best work. We are very proud to have them in room 17.

How to Be a Bucket Filler

In the last few days we have been talking about and remembering how to be a bucket filler. We have talked about what it feels like to have a full bucket and also what it feels like to have an empty bucket. Keep trying to fill buckets to make everyone feel happy including you!

This Week

Kia Ora,

This week we are going to be doing the following:

In writing we are going to be writing a chartacter description for the Principal's Writing Competition. 

In maths we are going to be doing lots of maths taskboard activities and we will be playing some games to help us learn about place value.

For Topic we are going to be constructing our fish by cutting out all the different body parts. We will also be learning about Matariki and hopefully on Friday we will spend some time with room 16 to celebrate.

On Thursday Mrs King will be teaching you as all of the Middle Team teachers are going to be having a meeting for the day.

See ya in the morning.

Miss C

Jack's Strength Project

We were very lucky to see some photo's and read some of Jack's travel journal from his trip to Thailand.

He worked very hard and produced some fantastic writing. Well Done Jack.

Our favourite song at the moment

Matariki

Kia ora whanau's 

It's that exciting time of year when some of our families come together to celebrate Matariki - Maori New Year.

Matariki officially starts this Saturday. There are lots of awesome events and activities for you to be apart of. Ch
eck out this link to see the calender of events for Matariki this year. My favourite is the Lantern Parade.

 http://matarikidunedin.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Puaka-Matariki-Events.pdf

Strength Projects

Well Done Sophie and Durar for completing your strength projects. Both of these girls used their reading strength to create a poster about a favourite book.

Shared Writing: Character Description

Wiley Coyote has brown and white, razor sharp ears. He has a fluffy tail and is as thin as a pin. His nose is as crooked as a frog’s leg because he broke it when he smashed into a solid rock. That evil coyote is so sneaky. He thinks he is smart but he is not 

very clever and a bit stupid! Wiley       Coyote speeds around trying to catch Road Runner but always fails.

Written by room 17

Published by Elsie McCoy

This week

Kia Ora Room 17,

This week we are going to be continuing on with our learning and I have lots of fun activities planned.

In writing we are going to use our knowledge of adjectives and similes to start writing some interesting character descriptions. Remember that we will be writing a character description for Mr Galloway's writing competition.

In reading you will be carrying on with your group activities. I was very impressed with your the summaries you wrote of your books last week. This week we will do some more summarising and we will make sure we write what happens in the beginning, middle and end of the book we are reading.

In maths we will be getting back to our taskboard and you will all be working on different activities. You all need to make sure you know your halves up to 20. We are going to keep learning the number partners to 20 too. Oh, I almost forgot! I am going to show you a awesome new website that we are going to use to help us at maths time - it is called Studyladder.

In topic we will carry on learning about fish and our focus this week will be learning about the parts of a fish and what the fish uses each part for. 

Other things:
- I will be at a course on Wednesday so Mrs King will be teaching you.
- We have assembly on Friday. Do you know who is getting a certificate from Room 17?
- Michael is our Bucket Filler this week. Well Done Michael!

Adios amigos.

Miss C

H A P P Y F R I D A Y

Mr Galloway is....

Today the children were playing a game where they worked in teams to come up with juicy adjectives to describe objects or people. The last person they were asked to describe was Mr Galloway and this is what they came up with


          COMPASSIONATE                    HANDSOME
                    RESPECTFUL            INTELLIGENT              SPECIAL

Sea Similes

As razor sharp as sharks pointy teeth.

Luka

  

As friendly as a dolphin.

Thanuja

  

As slow as a sea turtle.

Lukas

  

As  sneaky   as  a   catfish.

Jah-Tayzia

                     As fast  as  a piranha.

                    Tynan

                    As giant as a whale.

                     Dhyan

                   As scary as a shark.

                      Raghad

                    As flat as a stingray.

                      Esteban

                     As speedy as a hammerhead shark.

                       Durar

                        As humongous as a whale.

                     Isaac

                    As friendly  as a dolphin.

                    Lola

                       As fast  as  a sharks humongous  tail.

                     Tarun

  

                 As   fast as  a  swordfish.

                   Jackson 

As stripy as a yellow, black and white angelfish.

Elsie

                                                        As jiggly as a jellyfish.

     Sophie

 

As wide as a whale.

Nafi

As wiggly as  a jellyfish.

by Lachlan

As delightful as a dolphin.

Lucy

As colourful as a coral reef.

Dylan

Slimy and slow like a sea  snail.

Rylee

As bright as a sunfish.

Finn

As fat as a whale.

                                     Elijah

What to do on Snow Days

Thanks to all our parents for their patience and understanding over the last few days regarding school closure and a later start time. The decision to close schools is made in consultation with the Police and Met Service judging the risk of not being able to provide staff for a full day. Decisions are made collectively for all Dunedin primary schools as soon as possible in the day. Please note that there will be no Georgies before school care on days when there is a 10.00am start. Parents are reminded of the following ways to check on possible school closure:

1. Our school website (www.georgestreet.school.nz) will have the most up-to-date information about possible school closure due to weather conditions. Look for this information on the right-hand side of our home page. 
2. Local radio stations such as Radio Dunedin 99.8FM or MORE FM 97.4FM will broadcast if schools are to open at 10.00am or remain closed for the day. 

3. If all else fails, please call or text the school mobile number provided on our main school answerphone message (021 262 9919). 

Please note that if the snowfall is light and roads are safe, school will be open as usual. If snow falls during a school day, children will not be sent home early. We will close at the usual time of 3pm. However, if parents or caregivers wish to collect their children before 3pm, that is quite acceptable. Please let the classroom teacher know before taking your child. 

This week

Hi all,

This week we are going to be carrying on with our topic - Under the Sea. The children will be discussing what they already know about the ocean and fish. Later in the week we will be looking at the anatomy of a fish.

In writing this week we are going to carry on learning about similes and the children will write some under the sea similes. We will then move on to describing sea creatures.

Electives started with success last week. The children were buzzing about using some of their strengths in their electives group. Electives will carry on for the rest of this term.

We will be having some strength based learning time on Friday when the children can discuss their strengths and how they are going with achieving their goal.

Look out for some of the children's similes on the blog as they will be publishing them on here for you to read. It would be fantastic if you could comment on their work as you are a fantastic audience for the children and they love reading comments on the blog.

Thanks

Miss Cassidy